It might feel like the end of the world, but at least we can laugh and cry about it together. Don’t miss a rare opportunity to see Samuel Beckett’s classic Endgame featuring Tom King as Hamm and Jay Zehr as Clov. These long-standing contributors to the Harrisonburg theatre scene bring the depth of their life experience to a rich and layered work of literature.

Endgame imagines what may be the last living beings on earth, sheltering together at the end of everything, bound to one another and coping through routine and storytelling. The characters are also performers playing out their tensions before a live audience — an acknowledgment that theatre itself is a kind of shelter, a communion between stage and audience facing discomfort together. Beckett, one of the 20th century's defining playwrights, was capturing a specific postwar despair that still resonates today. The play may seem bleak at times, but it holds unexpected humor and a tender reckoning with what makes life meaningful when meaning itself feels precarious.